No changes? Hoped that 1% increment would be included in the new firmware Also hoped a touch-auto focus would come for the BMCC EF.. hopefully version 1.5 comes out next week with the release of BMPCC...

Support for pocket model? But not the 4K model. That's not surprising, they did say the pocket model is further along in development than the 4K model. But it would have been an exciting sign if it had support for both.

When I last updated my BMCC it listed the firmware changes in the utility installer. This is probably more an update to get the utility ready for the Pocket Camera Not that the BMCC doesn't need a proper firmware update after a year. Compressed raw is coming, right?

Andrew Reid wrote:When I last updated my BMCC it listed the firmware changes in the utility installer. This is probably more an update to get the utility ready for the Pocket Camera Not that the BMCC doesn't need a proper firmware update after a year. Compressed raw is coming, right?

It's officially announced and documented as a feature of the BMPCC pocket and BMPC-4K cams. So, it's reasonable to assume it's most-definitely coming for those cameras.

BMD has said they are looking at the possibility of bringing compressed RAW to the original BMCC, but no guarantees. It's not an announced feature for the BMCC. For example, their engineers may determine the hardware can't handle it. Or whatever the reason -- even if it's a purely financial/business reason -- compressed RAW may or may not become available on the original BMCC.

Agreed, thanks!But most features on that list are "nice to haves". I think only "audio meters" and "storage left" are critical, necessary features.It's a bit unnerving when you are shooting raw and there are no empty SSDs left and you have no idea how long you can keep shooting. On the other hand, one could just buy more SSDs to get around that.

Any way I too hope to have one or more features from that list in the future.

Christian Schmeer wrote:I do hope that if they bring compressed RAW to the BMCC, that they won't get rid of uncompressed RAW, though I doubt they'd take away a main feature the camera was sold for.

The only way I can conceive BMD eliminating uncompressed RAW in favor of compressed RAW is if the firmware code to do both can't fit in the camera's flashable memory (or whatever it's called). I suspect the code to do uncompressed RAW is smaller than the code to do compressed RAW, but that's totally a guess. The other unknown is if the BMCC's hardware can generate compressed RAW fast enough to record it. I'm sure there are other challenges BMDs engineers are faced with, too.

That's why it's always made sense to me that BMD will try to bring compressed RAW to the BMCC if it's possible, but it remains to be seem if it's possible or not. Here's hoping.

1.4 is the shipping firmware for the pocket cinema camera. To that camera it adds AF and more accurate battery status. Both of which weren't in the original features announced with the camera. So yeah, I'd agree and say it's feature packed.

AndiDieMaus wrote:Thank you for the information John! Hopefully it comes soon to the other cameras.

Yeah me too. Aside from the other things talked about at NAB like the possibility of 2.5K ProRes, Compressed RAW, Quicktime wrapped RAW, and other possibilities, I'd love to finally see the green peaking on the Pocket cam in the BMCC2.5k firmware. The Pocket Cam's peaking function is so much better than the 2.5K's peaking.